[Youtube] Unable to extract title; download failed

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

> youtube-dl --version
2016.08.31
> youtube-dl -F 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZTN594JQw&list=PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4'
[youtube:playlist] Downloading playlist PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4 - add --no-playlist to just download video FqZTN594JQw
[youtube:playlist] PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract title; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
> sudo youtube-dl -U
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2016.08.31)
> youtube-dl -F 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZTN594JQw&list=PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4' --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-F', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZTN594JQw&list=PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4', u'--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.31
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-36-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: avconv 2.8.6-1ubuntu2, avprobe 2.8.6-1ubuntu2, ffmpeg 2.8.6-1ubuntu2, ffprobe 2.8.6-1ubuntu2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:playlist] Downloading playlist PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4 - add --no-playlist to just download video FqZTN594JQw
[youtube:playlist] PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract title; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1934, in _real_extract
    return self._extract_playlist(playlist_id)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1904, in _extract_playlist
    page, 'title')
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 659, in _html_search_regex
    res = self._search_regex(pattern, string, name, default, fatal, flags, group)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 650, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract title; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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"Unable to extract title" error message encountered; download failed.